5 A.M.- 2:15 P.M. 14 hours owling. miles owling 47. parties owling 4. observers owling 7. hours afoot 38. miles afoot 14. hours by car 33. miles by car 339. sectors regular 10 (Elliott I. = 2 sectors in 1.
10 species w/ the highest nos.: starling 1,682. laughing gull 527. Canada goose 469. common grackle 448. red-winged blackbird 388. Forster’s tern 260. herring gull 184. turkey vulture 164. semipalmated sandpiper 140. great egret 131.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
Elliott I. Rd.: Suzette Stitely. James Bachman.
Taylors I.: Wayne Bell, George Radcliffe, YMOS Karolina Mandell.
East Central County, S. Of Rt. 50, W. Of Elliott I. Rd.: Steve Ford.
Matt Whitbeck: off limits parts of Blackwater NWR.
North County (N. Of Route 50): Jim Green.
Ron Ketter: restricted areas of BNWR (exclusive of those Matt covers)
Terry Allen central Blackwater NWR.
Many thanks to y'all. MANY !! Best wishes. - Harry Armistead.
We missed: glossy ibis, b.-c. night heron, spotted sandpiper, fish crow, field sparrow, rose-breasted grosbeak. There’s always surprising misses.
non-avian species: Matt Whitbeck’s list of such is impressive enough so that it merits inclusion in its entirety. Here it is: Sika - 6
Gray squirrel - 2
fox squirrel - 1
Common buckeyes
Monarchs
Gray hairstreak
Eastern tailed blue
Viceroy - 3-4
Common Checkered white - 3
Orange Sulphur
Silver spotted skipper
Black swallowtail
Variegated fritillary
American lady 1
Pearl crescent
Common Wood nymph-1 tattered
Seaside dragonlet
twelve-spotted skimmer
Common whitetail
Common green darner 1
Needham’s skimmer
Great blue skimmer
Slaty skimmer skimmer
Plain bellied watersnake - 1
others’ non-avian: seaside dragonlet (photographed
painted turtle 1.
black rat snake 1
painted lady 1
cloudless sulphurs 6
clouded sulphur 1
monarch 12
buckeye 8
gray hairstreak 2
silver-spotted skipper 6
river otter 3 (photographed)
gray squirrel 6
sika deer 1
white-tailed deer, 1 small fawn
“Just a brief commentary on the day. I am amazed every year how it just seems to get slower and slower particularly with the passerines.
It was very difficult to finally get 6 species of warblers. If someone else could find them –thank goodness for the count. It is so obvious that the # of birds is declining and species too from what I can see. I was in perfect habitat all day and it was just silent. Thanks for handling the count as always. I enjoy and look forward to this day. Take care.” - Steve Ford. His comments above I agree w/ 100%. Not much neotrops, migratory landbirds migration.- HTA.
Terry Allen said he walked the BNWR Marsh Edge Trail and did not see 1 bird.
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